Oblivion


By itself darkwater resides
a nocturnal needle
a forgetful beyond silence
that slumbering inconsequential
cuts a corner
a stammer jester in its unpronounceable tongue

And by fog or bright sunlight
or if you prefer in curdled agonized night 
oblivion she comes
to weep at your side
lay that kiss beneficent upon your brow
and whisper her breath
of oblivion

Sweet lips lay her peace upon your forehead
reside

Oblivion

Her dangerous alcohol heroine addiction
escape tunnel perfidious 
your attention so fixed
her intentions so mixed
lays the desperate palette 
of sacrificial dreams

Dark by night and dark by incidental 
dark by the injection of her frivolous needle
in portents she echoes
so demure and unrepentant
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